Category: News

A Minnesota couple on a road trip to celebrate their 10th anniversary took home a new symbol of their union: a 1.9-carat brown diamond from Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park. The park said in a news release that Jessica and Seth Erickson made the Crater of Diamonds State Park a featured destination on their […]

Police in Ontario said a pair of witnesses stepped in to corral a runaway miniature horse seen running loose alongside a busy highway. The Ontario Provincial Police said the mini horse escaped its pen and was spotted running alongside Highway 401 in Oxford County, just outside of Woodstock, Thursday morning. A pair of passers-by spotted […]

The 19th annual Guinness World Records Day is underway, and the record-keeping organization announced new records including most blindfolded standing backwards somersaults in one minute. The organization announced a slate of new records Thursday for GWR Day 2022, which bears the theme “Super Skills.” Dinesh Sunar, who grew up in Nepal and now lives in […]

A fireball streaked across the Midwest night sky, with residents capturing the light on camera from Wisconsin to Tennessee. The American Meteor Society said it received more than 100 reports Tuesday night of a fireball streaming across the sky, with reports coming in from Wisconsin, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri and other nearby states. Mitchell Myers’ dashboard […]

A Nebraska zoo announced a baby Matschie’s tree kangaroo was born at the facility recently and has started to poke its head out of its mother’s pouch. The Lincoln Children’s Zoo said Judie, a Matschie’s tree kangaroo, gave birth to a baby on May 3 and the now-27-week-old baby has started to see the world […]

A North Carolina man said a pharmacy worker’s urging led to his buying the Powerball ticket that earned him a $100,000 prize. Michael Buck, 62, of Rocky Mount, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he was picking up a prescription from the pharmacy at the Walmart Supercenter in Rocky Mount when an employee gave him […]

A British couple bought an ambulance off eBay are on a quest to break the Guinness World Record for longest journey in an ambulance — and they’ve already unofficially succeeded. Lawrence Dodi and Rachel Nixon, who are both veterinarians, said they were initially planning to purchase an RV to travel the world, but an ambulance […]